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They are called academic elites by some, probably the most arrogant of all. I personally would not know having been damn lucky to get out of GT with a degree, glad I don't have to do it again. Looking back at my life, think I would take a lot of common everyday sense (over book sense ) which I...

I was told by someone that knew, it seems that coach Dodd had a lot of personal problems in his later years, so much so some of his players had to help him out of at least some of his problems.

I found him a really likeable guy, wish him all the best.

Loosening the substitution rules which allowed kids with special abilities for the offensive side of the FB to play had more to do with opening up the game than anything else IMO. Having been there in the fifties, when they went to extremely ltd substitution rules the coaches let kids know that...

Extremely ltd substitution came along in fall of '53 and before that Dodd was light years ahead of everyone with unlimited substitution and he thought it was the reason General Neyland and Fritz Chrysler got the NCAA to install the very ltd sub rules if I heard him or maybe read him right. So I...

I always have wondered why Dodd never seemed to be able to hire effective assts after losing Broyles and Graves, at least that is what it always looked like to me. When I lived in Arkansas I heard Frank say that Coach Dodd always kept schools away from hiring his assts, I'm guessing the word got...

To add to what you're saying I like the coaching staff he's put together, think they will put together ways for our kids to win, the only ingredient left is adding some players and I think that is going to happen, at this point I'm not sure how quickly but I'm guessing quicker than we think...

Dodd never beat up on his players, he was known for that, but contrary to what some are suggesting that it was the times, he was known to be unique for that. Many coaches around the country would beat up on kids to run them off and make place for more recruits. The intensity of fans was just as...

As someone on here said the man just keeps doing bottom line common sense things in the order it appears they need to be done. Has a plan and is executing at a high level, such as hiring his staff, hiring young up coming capable go getters. No nonsense get it done.

Mack's teams seem to lack mental toughness or something.

If it's strictly the money they can move on as far as I'm concerned. I may find I have to adjust my thinking some where down the line, but I don't think so.

I think we get our special team problems worked out, gain some offense for what we've had and we'll have a good defense that will not have to stay on the field as much for seven wins

One of the things that I've heard that makes Dabo a good recruiter is that he gets out a lot and spends time with HS coaches.

Get great players on the LOS both sides and the rest will clamor to come here I'm guessing. The more I watch what's going on with GTFB the more the next couple years are going to be very interesting IMO, what we do on the field and maybe especially recruiting, could be a big impact recruiting...

I never knew much about the background of both Marrone and Billy O' before GT, never had a conversation with Doug but did have several with Billy O' and he always came off to me as a class person. Hated that Gailey would not turn the offense over to him and decided to let him go, in the long run...

Wow! Had no idea all those guys were there. Did our special teams coach also spend a year or two there? Wonder what the common denominator is for each of them, if there is one. If I had to guess I would say a passionate, smart student of the game.

No, I did not know that, but sensed something was different/special about VSU

He did stab us in the back, the Fridge said it was one of the worst feelings he had had since being in coaching or something to that effect. That crossed my mind when we hired Buster, I don't mean that had anything to do with us hiring Buster because I don't think it did.

He also had an OL coach that I thought ended up as a HC, but I could easily be wrong about that

I was interested in reading an AJC article about Buster Faulkner and the part about matchups. I remember Ralph Friedgen saying the biggest thing he learned when he got to pro ball was matchups. Interesting that Saban hired Billy O, Kirby hired Monken, both skilled in matchups. Appears to me this...